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The world’s most exclusive detective agency opens a new office–in Australia!

With the best detectives in the business, cutting edge technology and offices around the globe, there is no investigation company quite like Private. Now, at a glittering launch party overlooking the iconic Opera House, Private Sydney throws open its doors…

Craig Gisto and his newly formed team have barely raised their glasses, however, when a young Asian man, blood-soaked and bullet-ridden, staggers into the party, and what looks like a botched kidnapping turns out to be a whole lot more.

Within days the agency’s caseload is full. But it is a horrific murder in the wealthy Eastern Suburbs and the desperate search for a motive that stretches the team to the limit. Stacy Friel, friend of the Deputy Commissioner of NSW Police, isn’t the killer’s first victim—and as the bodies mount up she’s clearly not the last.

Detective Michael Bennett finally returns to New York City—and to the most unsettling, horrific case of his career.

At last, Detective Michael Bennett and his family are coming home to New York City. Thanks to Bennett, the ruthless crime lord whose vengeful mission forced the Bennett family into hiding has been brought down for good.

Back in the city that never sleeps, Bennett takes over a chaotic Outreach Squad in Harlem, where he receives an unusual call: a man claims to have seen a group of well-dressed men holding a bizarre party in a condemend building. With no clear crime or evidence, Bennett dismisses the report. But when a charred body is found in that very same building, he is forced to take the demented caller seriously—and is drawn into an underground criminal world of terrifying depravity.

History has recently created a new social media presence. After discussions with Zara Sheerin of the Press and Information Office, NUI Galway History decided to set up a Facebook page, a twitter feed and a blog. It is hoped that they will help publicise the activities and interests of staff and students both within NUI Galway and to an external audience.

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The blog, edited by Kevin O’Sullivan ( Head of B.A. (Single Honours) History ) and Niall Ó Ciosáin,( Head of 1st year Joint-honours B.A) features posts by members of staff and associates on themes of historical interest. The initial entries included musings on the relationship of the Corrib to the city of Galway, an old vinyl recording of De Valera, a Festschrift from 1913, as well as notices of book launches and conferences. Check it out at the link below!r Their Full-time administrator, Helena Condon, has created a very colourful Facebook page. While it will not replace Blackboard as the primary tool of communication with students, it will help make current and former students aware of what is happening in History. We already have over 200 likes! Helena is also responsible for the twitter feed, which directs traffic to both the blog and the Facebook page.

I am pleased to announce the launch of John Borgonovo’s latest book, The Dynamics of War and Revolution: Cork City, 1916-1918 (Cork University Press). John has been a friend of The Dustbin of History since its inception, and his previous works the critically acclaimed Spies, Informers and the Anti-Sinn Féin Society: The Intelligence War in Cork City, 1919-1921 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2006) and The Battle for Cork: July-August 1922 (Cork: Mercier, 2011) based on years of painstaking research have offered penetrating insights into Cork in the revolutionary period. His work has become an important facet of the ongoing historiographical debate concerning the IRA and violence at this time. This book is set to add significantly to our understanding of the dynamics of the revolution and violence in Cork by exploring its origins in the effect of the First World War on Irish society.

We are delighted to invite you to the launch of an anthology of poetry, fiction, drama, and essays honouring Prof. Adrian Frazier of the School of English at NUI, Galway. Celebrating Adrian’s extraordinary contribution to creative and cultural life in Galway, both within and outside of NUIG, this anthology features work by a lively mix of established and internationally acclaimed writers, popular members of the local writing community, and graduates of NUIG’s M.A. in Writing and M.A. in Drama programmes who are at the early stages of their creative careers. Published by Salmon Poetry, the anthology will be launched by poet, playwright and broadcaster Vincent Woods. We are gathering to honour Adrian’s unique and inspiring presence in Galway: join us for an evening of music, readings, refreshments, and general great craic.

Prof. Adrian Frazier is a graduate of Pomona College (BA 1971), Trinity College Dublin (Diploma in Anglo Irish Literature, 1973), and Washington University in St. Louis (MA 1976; Ph.D 1979). He has been on the faculty at Nanjing Teachers University (1979-81), Union College in New York (1981-2000), and the National University of Ireland at Galway (2000-), where he is the Director of the MA in Writing and also involved in the MA in Drama and Theatre Studies He has published on Irish poetry, drama, and fiction of the 20th century. He was elected to be a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2012.

Adrian Frazier’s current teaching at NUI Galway includes courses in the history of the sonnet, the poetry and designs of William Blake, Yeats, Moore, and Joyce, Irish drama, writing from archives, creative nonfiction, and reviewing.

In recent years poet and playwright Vincent Woods has been a guest presenter on the arts programmes Rattlebag, The Arts Show and The Eleventh Hour. He worked as a journalist with RTÉ, presenting on Morning Ireland, until 1989 when he began writing full-time.

Vincent has won several awards for his writing, including The Stewart Parker Award for Drama, the PJ O’Connor Award for Radio Drama, and the M.J. McManus Award for Poetry.

His plays include John Hughdy/Tom John, At the Black Pig’s Dyke, Song of the Yellow Bittern, Fontamara, and for radio, The Leitrim Hotel. His poetry collections include The Colour of Language.